Rowen

Family: Saxons · Role: daughter of Hengist · First appears: Book VI 12–14

Life events

Vortigern married Rowen, Hengist's pagan daughter.(Book VI 12–14)
- With: Vortigern
- “The king the same night married the pagan lady, and became extremely delighted with her”
Rowen arranged Vortimer's poisoning, and Vortimer died from the poisonous draught.(Book VI 12–14)
- With: Vortimer
- “so that this brave soldier, as soon as he had taken it, was seized with a sudden illness, that deprived him of all hopes of life”

parent: Hengist “They also brought along with them Rowen, the daughter of Hengist, one of the most accomplished beauties of that age.”
courtship with Vortigern “Vortigern being now drunk with the variety of liquors, the devil took this opportunity to enter into his heart, and to make him in love with the damsel, so that he became suitor to her father for her.”
married with Vortigern “The king the same night married the pagan lady, and became extremely delighted with her;”
with Vortimer (Rowen is Vortimer's stepmother.) “But his goodness quickly stirred up the enmity of the devil against him, who entering into the heart of his stepmother Rowen, excited her to contrive his death.”

Extracted from the original text of The History of the Kings of Britain. Made with Rho MD.